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STORRS — Stefanie Dolson and Bria Hartley played their final home game for UConn on Tuesday, each hoping to do what's possible to help the Huskies beat St. Joseph's and get to another Sweet 16. And that they did, combining for 37 points (20 for Hartley) to aid the Huskies' 91-52 win at Gampel Pavilion. But this end is just the beginning of the next phase of their lives and careers, just like it was for all the other UConn All-Americans who moved on to careers in the WNBA, and eventually overseas, after the Final Four. What's coming next for UConn's seniors became clear Saturday when Indiana Fever coach Lin Dunn sat on press row watching them practice live...

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STORRS — Stefanie Dolson and Bria Hartley played their final home game for UConn on Tuesday, each hoping to do what's possible to help the Huskies beat St. Joseph's and get to another Sweet 16.And that they did, combining for 37 points (20 for Hartley) to...

STORRS — St. Joseph's isn't leaving Gampel Pavilion after the first round this year. Instead the Hawks will play No. 1 UConn in the second round on Tuesday night.
No. 9 St. Joseph's beat eighth-seeded Georgia 67-57 in the first round of the NCAA...

UNCASVILLE – It appears the great misfortune of Louisville is to operate in this time and place: the Big East, the American Athletic Conference in the era of UConn. Imagine how disheartening it must feel at times.
The Cardinals have played two national...

AVON — Not many are invited to play golf with President Barack Obama. It's even less likely to get a rain check, like Ray Allen did."I had an opportunity over the winter to play with him because he came down to Miami," Allen said on Monday...

What's basketball without hope that the stars might align to make it possible for the virtually impossible to occur?
They did in Oklahoma City on Sunday night when Louisville, almost a 30-point underdog, dethroned defending national champion Baylor...

STORRS — Senior days come and go, leaving a trail of tears, nostalgia and statistical minutiae in their wake. But they all have something else in common aside from emotional release.
When they are over, they leave behind others to carry the aspirations...

We knew the toughest man in the room, the most competitive man in the gym, the greatest college basketball coach in New England history would battle until the end. We knew he'd go the full 15 rounds.We just didn't know the last battle wouldn't be on the...

Sure, it was a rock fight. Yet to focus on the rock is to miss the fact that the UConn Huskies moved a mountain over 28 glorious days.
Sure, the game was ugly to the eye. Yet defense is beautiful to the soul to a man who Tuesday sounded like he has no...

The season will end Monday night. The 41st game in this remarkable run will be the last. There is just another two-plus hours, 40 minutes of game time, for the 2010-11 Huskies to scramble around the court with the joy and passion that has defined a...

STORRS — Jim Calhoun sat in the front row of a near-empty Gampel Pavilion on Wednesday and he watched Kemba Walker, now in the NBA, push the ball up and down the court with the current UConn men's basketball players. Calhoun's legs were crossed, he was...

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — It would be overstating it to say that the Huskies shocked the world. But they did travel halfway around it to pull off a shocking upset in Kevin Ollie's first game as head coach.Shabazz Napier scored 25 points as the unranked...

Somewhere along the line, disbelief was met by something that felt like design, and so in the minutes before midnight Monday at Reliant Stadium, Kemba Walker strolled across the court, kicking up streamers that had fallen from high above, and offered...

STORRS – The Huskies already know the ending. It's March 9, at Gampel Pavilion against Providence at noon.When that game is over, barring an unforeseen change of heart by Big East Conference presidents, the balls will be put away.This is not the way it is...

Jim Calhoun walked off the court at Gampel Pavilion, down a tunnel, through the heavy set of doors and into the hallways of a building he is accustomed to navigating with great energy and purpose.From an office decorated with symbols of his success, to...

— Jim Calhoun was still playing basketball when he married Pat 46 years ago and their life together has been defined by the game.There was his time coaching in high school before he ascended to a college job in 1972. For more than 40 years, the calendar...

STORRS — There will be a new man in command in "The Bunker," but the supporting cast will remain the same."I've got the best staff in America," said Kevin Ollie, UConn's new men's basketball coach, looking out at his assistants....

The shock and the disappointment were still too fresh for UConn to feel the pride. That will come.
But one more big upset, one more coup to show the country, perhaps once and for all, what they were all about, was in their grasp. It got away and, for the...

Truth is, women's basketball needed this. The Big East certainly needed it.
They needed a game to feel good about between national powers, archrivals, conference antagonists who pulsed and punched from start to finish.
They got it.
They needed...